Professor Martin Rossor (UCL Institute of Neurology) discusses dementia research and drug discovery at the G8 dementia summit, saying: "We need large numbers of researchers working together and we need data access." Listen: BBC Radio 4 You and Yours (from 22mins)More...

Professor Val Curran (UCL Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology) comments on government plans to reclassify ketamine, saying: "It's got a very important role in medicine and has been around for 50 years." Listen: BBC Radio 5 Live
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British female scientists working to cure the world’s most infectious diseases
receive far less funding than their male peers, according to new research led by Michael Head (UCL Infection and Population Health). Read: The Independent, More: The Times (£)More...

Rates of black and minority ethnic (BME) people finding stem cell donors for blood cancer treatment are approaching those of white people after years of lagging behind, a study led by Dr Robert Lown (UCL Cancer Institute) has found. Read: The GuardianMore...

Of all the 118 elements in the periodic table, gold is the one humans have always tended to choose to use as currency. Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) discusses why this is the case. Read: BBC NewsMore...